then newsweek. >> i interviewed the polester for obama for america. the staffer ran into his office and said oh, my god, joel, mitt romney just called 47% of the americans deed beats. >> make these phone calls, we have to realize we're putting someone's career in jeopardy, even if they don't even tell us anything, because their name can show up, we had a conversation. >> you had this very collective leaking process that goes on, widespread throughout the government now where you have this really powerful executive branch that will only leak things or declassify things when it makes them look good and use classification as a weapon to attack critics. >> the only recourse of this kind of behavior by the government is to say back to the government we declare war on you, and from this point forward, we should no longer as a media as a whole cooperate in any manner with the government in terms of when we're doing national security stories. cenk: now there was a guy who in his reporting was absolutely fearless, and i couldn't be more proud to have had him o